Garbage-receptacle.



W. L. LUBBOCK.

GARBAGE BEUEPTAOLE.

APPLIOATION FILED ma. 9, 1012.

Patented May 13, 1918.

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WILLIAM L. LUBBOGK, 0F HOUSTON, TEXAS.

GARBAGE-RECEPTACLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May-13, 1913.

Application filed August 9, 1912. Serial No. 71, 1,235.

My invention relates to new and useful.

improvements in garbage receptacles.

The object of the invention is to provide a device 01: the character described having a bail which .is hinged thereto and a covering therefor arranged to he held securely thereon by said bail when it is desired to close the receptacle, but which will readily slide upon the'bail when it is desired to open thereceptacle and empty the garbage therefrom.

Another object of the invention is to provide a receptacle which is reinforced by vertically extending ribs which makes the receptacle more durable.

.With the above and other objects in view, theinvention has particular relation to certain novel features of construction, operation and arrangement of parts, an example of which is given in this specifi-ation and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a plan view oi the receptacle showing the lid locked thereon. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, showing the covering elevated on the bail and in position to be opened. Fig. 3 is a side elevation thereof slu'iwing the receptacle opened and in posit ion to be emptied.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing, the nun'ieral. l designates the receptacle which is preferably cylindrical in shape and formed of sheet metal and provided with a suitable bottom 2. Riveted upon opposite sides of the receptacle are vertically extending braces 3, 3, whose upper ends project some distance above the top thereo't'.

The numeral 4 refers to a circular covering provided with slotsfi, 5 on opposite sides thereon, through which the upper ends of the braces 3, 3 extend.

The numeral (3 refers to a bail whose ends are hinged to the upwardly projecting upper ends of the braces 3, 3.

The covering 4 has a cross brace 7 riveted thereto whose ends are up-turned, forming clamps 8, 8, the distance between which being slightly less than the width of the bail 6 so that when the covering-is placed upon the receptacle and the bail forced over so as to lie down upon said covering, the sides of the bail may be forced between said clamps which will. grip the same and hold the bail down tirmly' against the covering and thus lock the covering on the receptacle. When it desired to empty the receptacle, the, bail may be forced upwardly and. from between said clamps and the covering then elevated to the position shown in Fig. 2, the sides of the bail passing through the slots 5, 5, and

the bail may then be forced down to the position show in Fig. 3, when the covering will assume a vertical position and rest. against the rear side of the receptacle, as shown in said Fig. 3. Near the bottom of the receptacle is a grip t) by means of which the receptacle may be elevated and emptied into a wagon or other receptacle. The front side 61" the receptacle 1 is reinforced by means of vertically extending ribs 10 which are provided to prevent the receptacle from being bent or disfigured when striking against the. wagon body or other receptacle intowhich the garbage is emptied. \Vhen the receptacle 1 has been emptied, the bail 6 may then be again elevated and the covering will, of its own accord, slide down the bail and assume it's normal position on said receptacle and may then be locked thereon by forcing the bail again between the clamps 8, as shown in Fig. 1.

A garbage receptacle constructed as herein described and as shown in the drawings tiled herewith and made a part hereof, will be cheaply and easily constructed and will not be so liable to become accidentally uncovered as similar devices now in common use, and the covering will not be so liable to become broken oil of the receptzwle, as would be the case it said covering was hinged directly to the receptacle in the manner of the ordinary garbage receptacle.

, What I claim is A device of the character described, including a receptacle, a vertically extending brace secured upon each side of said rewp- 'tacle, the upper ends .of said braces extend ing above the receptacle, a covering having a slot in each side thereof through which the upper ends of said braces extend, a bail hinged upon each side tothe upper ends of said braces, arranged so that said covering may be moved up and dovvn thereon, a brace In testimony whereof I have signed my extending across the covering and having name to this specification in the presence of lip-turned ends forming clamps between twosubscribing witnesses.

which said bail may be forced when the WILLIAM L. LUBBOCK. covering is upon the receptacle and which Witnesses: will engage against said baiiand lock the E. L. CATHEY covering on the receptacle. MAY MONTGOMERY.

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